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Vulin visited on Tuesday the border crossing Horgos 1 which was closed today by Hungarian authorities, and said that it was undertaken “without notifying Serbian authorities” and that this created a problem with refugees from the Middle East who keep arriving at the...

Buses carrying migrants arrived from Serbia’s southern border with Macedonia to the western town of Sid near the Croatian border on September 16.

“If someone claims to be a refugee, he will be asked if he filed an asylum request in Serbia“.

Two dozen police in surgical masks and gloves have blocked access to train platforms for more than 400 refugees and migrants holding tickets to Vienna. About 300 are on a motorway, escorted by police.

Overwhelmingly, they want to go to Germany or Sweden.

They were taken to processing centers before they were allowed to leave Hungary.

Gabriel, who is also economy minister, urged Europe to examine how it can “quickly help in an efficient way the countries of origins of these refugees”.

The fence four metres (13 feet) high being built in addition along its entire 175-kilometre (120-mile) border with Serbia is due to be completed by the end of October or early November, the government says.

In Macedonia, more teams of volunteers from the United Nations and government special police forces guide them onto buses or onto rundown electric trains or cramped taxis headed for the country’s northern border with Serbia.

Hungarian soldiers patrol along the temporary border fence in Roszke, Hungary, at the border between Hungary and Serbia, Sunday, September 13, 2015.

The ministers also agreed to implement a network of refugee camps which would be set up initially in Italy and Greece – where most refugees enter through – and later would be expanded overseas, in Middle Eastern and African countries.

A DSB spokesman says police asked them to cancel the services.

In another instance of the perils facing the refugees on their trek, Austrian police said on Sunday they had rescued 42 people from a refrigerated truck on a highway near the border to Germany.

Crossing Greece to the FYROM border is just the first of many challenges facing the migrants in a Europe where their reception ranges from hospitality to hostility.

Greece’s caretaker government chartered two extra ferries and sent additional staff to Lesbos to speed up the registration and ease overcrowding on the island, where more than 20,000 refugees and migrants had been living after arriving on dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast.